Week 1
(8/22-8/28)—Syllabus, Class Schedule, Texts, Grading, Intro to Grammar.
Week 2
(8/29-9/4)—Coordination, Subordination, Major Sentence Errors, and Parallelism. (Overview of Part III of Paragraphs.)
Week 3
(9/5-9/11)—Labor Day Holiday. Generative Sentence Rhetoric (A method of writing nice sentences). Polishing your sentences (Avoiding common errors). Grammar Test.
DS 014 Writing
Fall 2010
Week 1
(8/22-8/28)—Syllabus, Class Schedule, Texts, Grading, Intro to Grammar.
Week 2
(8/29-9/4)—Coordination, Subordination, Major Sentence Errors, and Parallelism. (Overview of Part III of Paragraphs.)
Week 3
(9/5-9/11)—Labor Day Holiday. Generative Sentence Rhetoric (A method of writing nice sentences). Polishing your sentences (Avoiding common errors). Grammar Test.
Week 4
(9/12-9/18)—Generative Sentence Rhetoric (cont.). Syntactic Reduction. Sentence Imitation. GSR Test.
Week 5
(9/19-9/25)—The Paragraph—Coherence and Description (Chapters 1&6 in Paragraphs).
Week 6
(9/26-10/2)—Types of Prose, Prewriting and Drafting, Revising and Editing (Chapters 3-4 in Paragraphs). Descriptive paragraph assigned.
Week 7
(10/3-10/9)—Fall Break (Mon/Tues) Process Analysis (Chapter 8 in Paragraphs). Descriptive paragraph due. Process Analysis paragraph assigned.
Week 8
(10/10-10/16)—Cause and Effect (Chapter 11 in Paragraphs). Process Analysis paragraph due. Cause and Effect paragraph assigned.
Week 9
(10/17-10/23)—Classification (Chapter 12 in Paragraphs). Cause and Effect paragraph due. Classification paragraph assigned.
Week 10
(10/24-10/30)—Comparison and Contrast (Chapter 10 in Paragraphs). Classification paragraph due. Comparison and Contrast paragraph assigned.
Week 11
(10/31-11/6)—Definition (Chapter 9 in Paragraphs). Comparison and Contrast paragraph due. Definition paragraph assigned.
Week 12
(11/7-11/13)—Argument (Chapter 13 in Paragraphs). Definition paragraph due. Essay 1 assigned.
Week 13
( 11/14-11/20)—About the Essay (cont.)--Thesis Statements (Hooks), Opening Paragraphs, Form in Writing. Chapter 14 in Paragraphs.
Week 14
(11/21-11/27)—Thanksgiving Holidays (Wed-Fri). About the Essay (cont.). Start on Essay 2.
Week 15
(11/28-12/4)—All rewrites due. Essay 2 due. Review and get ready for final.
Week 16
(12/5-12/11)—Final day of courses, Dec. 9. Course wrap-up and catchup.
Final Exam--The final exam will be from 8 am to 10 am on Monday, December 13th.